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DLR track gauge
On 29 Jul 2006 16:36:00 -0700, "Stephen Furley"
wrote: Charles Ellson wrote: Like with 25NCs ? It does look rather odd to see something that size on such a narrow track gauge. How common is modern narrow gauge light rail equipment elsewhere in the World? I would have thought that there would be more people building standard guage equipment, which might actually make it cheaper. OTMH you've got various bits of metre-gauge around Europe (a lot in Switzerland ?) which does in general seem to scale down the size of the bodywork while in Africa 3' 6" gauge seems to be "normal-sized" bodies running a bit closer to the ground. In both cases the trackwork is generally going to be cheaper while in the latter case the main difference is the bogies on the rolling stock which won't necessarily cost more while the locomotives in the past possibly had less "off the shelf" nature than now so the difference between standard and the larger narrow-gauges also might not have been significant or even extra. -- _______ +---------------------------------------------------+ |\\ //| | Charles Ellson: | | \\ // | +---------------------------------------------------+ | | | // \\ | Alba gu brath |//___\\| |
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